Riley Eve Casey

I write this blog entry as my little girl is happily sitting in a baby rocker being swung back and forth while her mother sleeps on the couch right next to her (exhausted from a day filled with visitors). Life has been good for our family lately. We spend the majority of our time seeing old friends or just sitting around at home either keeping Riley amused or trying to get her to have a nap (no matter how much she would rather be awake watching what everyone else is doing). But it’s amazing how you can’t even begin to rationally explain where your day went when you are looking after a baby, even when there are TWO people doing it. You try to break down in your head how 12 hours have gone by and you realize that it was taken up by so many little things. Changing nappies, feeding, bath time, changing the nappy again, reading to her, changing the nappy again, cradling her in your arms.... oh and did I mention changing her nappy? I did? Well while you contemplate my repetitiveness I...

The answers to Riley's Sweat Test had been playing on our mind last weekend. Even though we didn't believe she would come back with a bad result, it's still nice to hear the doctor actually say it. Originally we expected that the result wouldn't come back for a few days; but after they did it they clarified that it would be available by 6pm that night. It was a relief. However we did the math very quickly and realized that all the doctors who were authorized to deliver the results to us would be finished (and probably driving as far away from the hospital as they can get) by 5:30pm. Just knowing that the answers would be sitting on a computer waiting to be read with nobody able to let us know would have driven me crazy. So after we took Riley out on yet another day pass, we made sure we returned her to the hospital by 5pm in the hopes that maybe just maybe the results got back in early. When we entered the cardiac ward we almost immediately ran into one of the doctor...